My favorite really depends on what I just read most recently. I think Luke's the only one who's never been a favorite, though. Arkady has probably been it the most often, but Connor, KK, and Caz aren't far behind. And I love Sirkka and Jack, too.

I'd probably be more inclined to hang out with Caz or Connor, though. And go drinking once in a while with KK.

For my money I think that I would have to say my fav is actually a duo. I like the way that karl and kirk interact with each other. That one discussion they had about how they went behind everyone's back and tried to kill Mark gave alot of insite into those two. I got the impression that those two really depend on each other much more than the others depend on each other.

something about Luke makes me think he has alot of interesting potential. The most like Mark........therefore the most likely to get taken out by my other favs. Pretty sure that he and I would be really good drinking buddies if he could look past how he considers himself to be innately superior to me

Connor I think. He reminds me of me, in terms of personality (and hair), and he's got a bitchin' trenchcoat. I like the fact that he looks like a total badass, but is probably the biggest softie among the lot of them.

I have to say my favorite character is Luke. He's a slimy, pathetic bastard who, the first time you see him, is sitting under a cardboard box wearing nothing but a green overcoat and a pair of boots. I don't know how to explain it. I get the feeling that the Freakangels are loyal to the Clan. It seems like Luke is loyal to them, but they don't return it. And so it continued with a downward spiral. It'd be nice to see more of what he was like in the past, or just more interaction with the rest of the Clan.

I too love a good bastard in fiction (or even real life) which is why I like Mark already. But Luke's no proper bastard, he's just a wanker and an overgrown adolescent. "Oh wanh! Nobody likes me! Wanh! Why don't my mates like me? I'll show them, I'll act like a complete twat! That'll make 'em like me!" Maybe it's because your such a pathetic loser, you sponge! Man up, grow a pair and take reaponsibility for your life.

I'm also a big fan of Sirkka (not a big fan of society, and the basis of society is the family unit) and Kait (Hardassed but fair is definately "teh Awesum").

But I have to say, Arkady is the all around bestist Freakangel in the world. the whimsey is part of it, as is the completly practical approach to hair :-P. The biggest draw is that unlike the others, she embraces her power and makes it her own (she's the only one to figure out teleporting, c'mon really?) She was the first to realize that they could change the world. She was also the only one who went into the outsider's camp knowing that they would become part of the Whitechapel community. Arkady's sense of wonder opens her to an amazing number of opportunities, that would never occur to the others.

Jack, by wide margin. There's something quite romantic about him setting out in his ship, braving danger for the good of Whitechapel, even if his reasons lie with his lady-love trying to kick-start post-apocalyptic polyamory.

Or maybe I'm just a sucker for anyone who can pull off a fishnet shirt. Time will tell.

I love Arkady. Something about how she can be amazingly overpowered but be so sweet without compromising on being badass when she has to.

KK and Alice are tied for second because they're both awesome but totally different ways. KK obviously has steamcopter and fishnets sexiness kind of awesome character design plus all the many reasons already listed I don't feel like typing over. Alice seems real plain on the surface, until you realize how damn tough of a personality she has. I mean, she just got dropped in with a group of people who have way powerful abilities and there's fighting going on in the first day she's there. She could just hide behind the awesomely powered people. But instead, she finds ways to help using their abilities. That's just plain awesome.

I realize the story is still young, but quick character development is a hallmark of FA -- so far the 12 have been portrayed as each having a different personality focus, i.e. a particular trait that is stronger in them than in the other FAs, and that drives them both physically, socially and behaviorally, which if all combined would make a single extremely well rounded "whole person." This thread has shown how each FA is associated with their strongest personality trait and how those lead to our identification with one or another more strongly.

Also, if one reads other books by Warren, it seems to me that certain characters epitomize a particular aspect of his own personality (at least what I've seen of it through his first-person commentaries).

SO, at the risk of sounding like something other than what I'd like to be regarded as, my favorite (note spelling) Freakangel is Warren Ellis.

But of course the award for "most desirable companion if stranded on a desert island" goes to Sirkka. I mean, come on.